Völzberger Köpfchen is a hill in the
Vogelsberg mountain range, located in
Hesse,
Germany. It rises 570.8 m making it the highest point in the
Main-Kinzig
Main-Kinzig-Kreis is a Kreis (district) in the east of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Wetteraukreis, Vogelsbergkreis, Fulda, Bad Kissingen, Main-Spessart, Aschaffenburg, Offenbach and the district-free cities of Offenbach and Frankfurt ...
district.
Flora
Vogelsberg mountain range is the largest contiguous
basalt massif in Central Europe.
Flora in the higher areas are
beech forests, spruce forests,
hardwood
Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from ...
and broken forests. There is also a
raised bog. Upstream from the forest are flowering mountain meadows and sometimes bristle grass. The Vogelsberg mountain range is the starting point for many small rivers and springs.
Tourism
Climb Völzberger Köpfchen on the Vogelsberg volcano ring hiking trail, circling Europe's largest extinct volcanic area. The trail has an approximate length of 115 km and can be hiked in six stages, climbing Völzberger Köpfchen in stage four.
References
Mountains of Hesse
Mountains and hills of the Vogelsberg
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